Women of Color magazine’s 2019 “Top Women in Finance” list features chief diversity officers and diversity recruitment captains at some of the biggest banks in the world.

Many of the top employers that made the list work with farmers, non-agricultural companies, and offer investment banking, as well as personal loans, credit card services, mortgages, asset management, and insurance to millions of Americans.

At some of the oldest financial institutions in the United States such as JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs, our researchers found that women are leading the development of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Deutsche Bank and TD Bank are also pushing efforts to promote diversity. And Prudential Financial is driving the diversity and inclusion (D&I) strategy for group insurance as other bankers develop D&I programs to attract talent.

Women of Color magazine’s 2019 list also features top women executives from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the Principal Financial Group, Bank of the West, and, American Express, which is implementing strategies around the pipelining of Black, Hispanic, Latinx, and female executive-level talent.

There are also executives from PNC, Mastercard, H&R Block, and Morgan Stanley, where diversity and inclusion strategies span the investment management, finance, technology, operations, risk management, and legal/ compliance divisions.

Improved diversity analytics are helping Nationwide, SunTrust, Accenture, Equifax, State Street, PayPal, Capital One increase minority representation within their organizations.

Also looking to the long term are companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young (EY), Fifth Third Bank, Quicken Loans, and the USAA, which are all focused on developing leaders that look like America.

Women of Color online will feature one diversity champion a day leading up to the 2019 Women of Color in STEM Conference.